@chaismyatoy replied to your photo “I’m done”
Uh. I get what you're trying to say, but the concentration camps were set up by the Chechen government. Which is all Muslim and, by Russian standards, of color.
Russia may consider Chechens to be non-white, or better said, their racism may be more territorial as opposed to color-based. However, I am a white-skinned person with Muslim ancestry and family living in U.S. If it came between me and a person of Muslim ancestry with Syrian features in U.S., who do you think will be the one discriminated against?
My point had nothing to do with ethnicity, religious affiliation, or skin color of the Chechen government, but rather of U.S. perception of it, in which a Muslim we consider white committing a crime will never be viewed as harshly as a non-white Muslim committing a crime. And a country we in U.S. consider predominantly white will never be judged as harshly for violating human rights as are the countries that U.S. considers to be of color. And this has been historically proven over and over again. Example just off the top of my head: League of Nations condemnation of Japan for invading Manchuria before WWII. White people colonialism was just fine, but God forbid Japan tried to extend its territory due to loss of industry and overpopulation post Great Depression.
Here, in U.S., we have history of considering people of color to be less than, and when you combine that with rampant Islamophobia, you get the type of reaction we saw in Syria, and nothing but silence when it comes to concentration camps in Chechnya. That was the point I was trying to make.
